Fundraising FoxHat-Trick Capital
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series A · 1 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Hat-Trick Capital takes a research-driven, founder-first approach to early-stage investing, supporting companies from pre-seed to Series A with checks of $500K to $3M. The firm concentrates on three sectors: agentic AI (enterprise copilots, autonomous agents, AI infrastructure, developer tools, and B2B/B2C AI), robotics (autonomous vehicles, warehouse automation, service robotics, hardware-plus-AI stacks, and embodied intelligence), and consumer technology (AI-powered experiences, consumer platforms, last-mile and logistics, creator economy, and adtech/martech). It brings domain expertise and an operator network to help founders refine MVPs, reach product-market fit, and drive early growth.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.
Team · 1 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 22 of 23 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Enterprise Software ×10SaaS ×8Developer Tools ×6Advanced Manufacturing ×5Hardware ×5Robotics ×4E-commerce ×3
HQs:United States×19Canada×1United Kingdom×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 7 portfolio companiesWhere their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data
Brigham Young University ×2Harvard Business School Online ×2University of Michigan ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×5Engineering ×4Business & Management ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 11 founders with career history
CoreWeave ×2Miro ×2Reforge ×2Uber ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 23 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12023 · 12021 · 12015 · 14 dated
Botrista offers a craft beverage automation platform that lets restaurants and foodservice operators serve made-to-order drinks—such as bubble tea, iced coffee, smoothies, and lemonades—from over 2,000 recipes at the touch of a button.
AI & Machine LearningFoodTechHardwareRoboticsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Hao-Che Hsu(Executive Officer, Director)Sean Hsu(Founder)inWu-Chou Kuo(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsDunamu & PartnersPinnacle VenturesCitta CapitalHive VenturesMESHSony Ventures Corporation+2 more
AICEpower builds autonomous subsea drones for monitoring and protecting critical infrastructure using swarm technology.
Advanced ManufacturingDefense TechIoTRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Gregoire Chomette(Co-founder and CEO)inRémi Bouteiller(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorGaingelsGlobal Founders CapitalHassan Lantry (Blast)Motier Ventures
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Docsum is an AI-powered contract management platform that integrates with existing legal tools to provide in-house legal teams with automated contract review, intake, and post-signature tracking capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechNew York City, US
Shaunak Turaga(CEO + Founder)inAlex Leonov(CTO + Founder)in
Co-investorsCervinY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzDavidovs Venture CollectiveGoodFin VenturesKleiner Perkins+6 more
Feather provides an operating system for deploying and managing AI agents across enterprise functions like customer service, IT, sales, legal, and operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSeattle, US
Aahan Sawhney(Founder)inSaurabh Jain(Founder)in
Co-investorsPioneerY CombinatorFoundersXFundamental VenturesHarvest Venture PartnersRoadrunner Ventures+4 more
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Kargo uses computer vision hardware ("Towers") installed at warehouse loading docks to capture freight events in real time and turn them into structured data.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US
BoardSpencer Foust(Director)in
Co-investorsSozo VenturesActivant CapitalAvenir Growth CapitalB3 CapitalEvolution VC PartnersGood Friends+10 more
Mentra builds smart glasses hardware, an open-source operating system (MentraOS), and developer tools for deploying applications on smart glasses.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSan Francisco, US
Cayden Pierce(CEO / Founder)inAlexander Israelov(Founder)in
Co-investorsToyota VenturesAlumni VenturesHartmann CapitalOlive Tree CapitalPioneerTIRTA Ventures+11 more
Monterey AI builds an AI-powered product analytics platform designed to extract insights from qualitative user data and feedback.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Chun Jiang(Founder)inBen Kramer(Co-founder, CTO)in
Co-investorsExceptional CapitalSancus VenturesSoma CapitalY CombinatorAlumni VenturesAmplify Partners+6 more
OpenPipe provides an SDK that automatically captures prompt-completion pairs from existing LLM providers and converts them into fine-tuned models that are faster and more cost-effective to run.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US
Kyle Corbitt(Founder)inDavid Corbitt(Founder)in
Co-investorsLombardstreet VenturesY CombinatorCostanoa VenturesEight CapitalGoodwater CapitalPioneer+1 more
Origami Robotics develops hardware components, specifically gearboxes, to improve general-purpose robotic manipulation by addressing limitations of high-ratio designs in simulation-to-reality transfer and force feedback.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Quanting(Daniel) xie(Founder)inRyan Xie(Founder)in
Co-investorsBeyond Earth VenturesFifty YearsScript CapitalY CombinatorALM VenturesApex Star Capital Nebula Fund+5 more
Pares provides commercial real estate sales and advisory services, offering valuation guidance, investment property listing, and 1031 exchange facilitation for property investors and owners.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechLos Angeles, US
Zihao Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Posh builds rapidly deployable battery storage and on-site power generation systems for commercial, industrial, and data-center customers, paired with intelligent energy management software.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSan Francisco, US
Minh Chung Hoang(Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsBeni Venture CapitalMetaplanetOUTBOUND CAPITALWorldQuant VenturesY CombinatorAsymmetry Ventures+10 more
Praxis AI collects egocentric video, 3D scans, and multimodal sensor data from industrial and residential work environments through partnerships with large corporations, then sells this real-world training data to AI companies developing physical robotics and other systems.
Advanced ManufacturingSan Francisco, US
Dev Karpe(Founder)inTommy Li(Founder)inRohan Seelamsetty(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAmino CapitalGaia VenturesGreat Wave VenturesHassan Lantry (Blast)NYX Ventures Partners+4 more
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Rescale provides cloud-based engineering and R&D platform with simulation, modeling, and digital engineering tools for enterprise engineering teams across multiple industries.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Joris Poort(Founder and Chief Executive Officer)inAdam McKenzie(Founder and Chief Technology Officer)in
BoardToshiya Otani(Director)Yanev Suissa(Director)in
Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)DVCFf Venture CapitalFlucas VenturesHitachi VenturesInitialized Capital+33 more
Respan provides infrastructure for teams to trace, evaluate, and monitor AI agent workflows in production at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Andy Li(Founder)inRaymond Huang(Founder)inHendrixin
Co-investorsAntigravity CapitalY CombinatorGradient Ventures
Scalar Field is an AI trading platform that provides market research, backtesting, and trading agents connected to brokerages for execution across equities, options, prediction markets, and pre-IPO securities.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Amandeep Singh(Founder)inRamakant Yadav(Founder)in
Co-investorsHassan Lantry (Blast)Lobster CapitalNeer Venture PartnersPioneerTaurus VenturesY Combinator+8 more
SellRaze is a mobile app for reselling secondhand items online, letting users create listings from an image, text, or barcode and crosslist them across marketplaces like eBay, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Facebook.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
Jeff Mao(Founder)inTyler Ma(Founder)in
Co-investorsLobster CapitalPioneerTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorAgrolimen VenturesAmino Capital+10 more
Synphony provides AI and robotics software for building and deploying robotic systems in real-world environments, serving robotics teams and operators who need to integrate autonomous systems into physical workflows.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Sean Wu(Founder)inLucas Amlicke(Founder)in
Co-investorsLobster CapitalY CombinatorBronco VenturesChemistryGuil Mobility VenturesMultifaceted Capital+2 more
TestSprite automates software testing for back-end and front-end systems using AI, allowing individual developers and DevOps teams to validate code with minimal manual input.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Yunhao Jiao(Executive Officer, Director)inShawnie Shan(Founder)inXiangyi Shan(Founder)Rui Li(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardYuval Neeman(Director)
Co-investorsEdge Case Capital PartnersTechstarsTrilogy Equity PartnersBaidu VenturesFirstrock Capital
Tranch provides invoice and payment solutions for enterprises in services, software, and marketplace sectors, offering methods including instant transfers, card payments, cryptocurrency, and deferred payment options to accelerate cash collection.
FintechSaaSLondon, GB
Philip Kelvin(Founder)inBeau Allison(Founder)inAllison Beau(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Co-investorsAmino CapitalClear Haven Capital ManagementSoma CapitalY CombinatorFlash VenturesFoundersX+10 more
UniUni provides technology-driven last-mile parcel delivery services for e-commerce companies of all sizes, operating through a network of independent contractor drivers and package handlers.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainVancouver, CA
Peter Lu(Founder)inKevin Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCeltic House Asia PartnersCeltic House Venture PartnersDCM VenturesLanchi VenturesLFX Venture Partners+7 more
Yarn is an AI-powered video creation platform that helps startup teams produce content at scale using generative talking heads, product demo automation, and AI-assisted editing.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Jasper Story(Founder)inNicole Atack(Founder)inVarun Anand(Cofounder)Jacob James Blackett(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsLeonis CapitalPioneerY CombinatorEight CapitalGeneral CatalystGlobal Brain+3 more
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Zaymo provides interactive email blocks that enable customers to complete transactions, write reviews, and manage subscriptions directly within emails without leaving the email client.
E-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSLehi, US
Brice Douglas(Founder)inDaniel Jones(Founder)in
Co-investorsFjor FoundersY CombinatorAlbum VCOrange CollectivePhoenix Fund
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
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Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPraxis Robotics · ycombinator.com · Aug 6, 2026
Scalar Field · ycombinator.com · Jul 16, 2026
AICE · ycombinator.com · Jun 2, 2026
Synphony · ycombinator.com · May 21, 2026
Respan · finsmes.com · Mar 18, 2026
Origami Robotics · ycombinator.com · Mar 5, 2026
Kargo · finance.yahoo.com · Dec 22, 2025
TestSprite · finsmes.com · Oct 29, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Hat-Trick Capital made?
- Hat-Trick Capital has 23 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Hat-Trick Capital invest at?
- Hat-Trick Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Hat-Trick Capital's typical check size?
- Hat-Trick Capital typically writes checks of $500K – $3M.
- What sectors does Hat-Trick Capital focus on?
- Hat-Trick Capital focuses on AdTech, AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Creator Economy, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Logistics & Supply Chain, Marketing Tech, Mobility & Transportation, Robotics.
- Where is Hat-Trick Capital located?
- Hat-Trick Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Who does Hat-Trick Capital co-invest with?
- Hat-Trick Capital most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Soma Capital, TransLink Capital, among 54 tracked co-investors.
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